Journey to the South
By: Michal Ajvaz
4.07
Format: 596 pages, Paperback
In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a h…
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1. Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
By: Bohumil Hrabal , Paul Wilson
3.48
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” ( The New Yorker ) Never bef… read more
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"Everything has its own torture chamber, but also its own paradise."-Bohumil Hrabal, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
"Life is fidelity to the beauty exploding all around us, even, at times, at the cost of our own lives."-Bohumil Hrabal, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
"This new age is melting you all down, because it's not the measles you've come down with, it's the epoch."-Bohumil Hrabal, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
"You can't live without cracks in the brain. You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice."-Bohumil Hrabal, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
2. L'Écume des jours
By: Boris Vian
3.93
Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more
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"Per me, ciccino mio"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. Rue des boutiques obscures
By: Patrick Modiano
3.63
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Que reste-t-il de la vie d'un homme ? Une photo, au fond d'une boîte ou d'un tiroir, des papiers ad… read more
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"One has to retire eventually, Guy."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?"-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
5. Diary of Andres Fava
By: Julio Cortázar , Anne McLean
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Andres Fava is a character from Cortazar's Final Exam, and his diary originally formed part of that… read more
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6. The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square
By: Gert Jonke , Vincent Kling
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
An astonishing and fantastical autobiographical novel--reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Laurence St… read more
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7. The Grip of It
By: Jac Jemc
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac… read more
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8. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą
By: Bruno Schulz
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
10. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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11. Paradise
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more
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12. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
13. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
14. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
15. The Arrest
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.15
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more
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"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest
16. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)
By: Dino Buzzati
3.53
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more
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17. Teorie podivnosti
By: Pavla Horáková
3.74
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Vypravěčka Ada Sabová, mladá vědkyně z „Ústavu mezioborových studií člověka“, je v mnohém typickou … read more
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18. Journey to the South
By: Michal Ajvaz
4.07
Format: 596 pages, Paperback
In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a h… read more
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19. The Remembered Part (Trilogía las partes #3)
By: Rodrigo Fresán
4.42
Format: 760 pages, Paperback
The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the qu… read more
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20. A Blind Salmon
By: Julia Wong Kcomt
4.00
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
A Blind Salmon engages in Julia Wong Kcomt's characteristically unflinching plumbing of the human b… read more
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21. When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me
By: Ananda Devi
3.73
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
‘If I had only one word to define this book, it would be aliveness-a synonym, plausibly, in Ananda … read more
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"Les religions vous dispensent d'écouter Dieu."-Ananda Devi, When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me
"The rejection of difference is what turns people into monsters."-Ananda Devi, When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me
